[Mageia-dev] RFC: Opening Backports (once again...)

Tue Jan 3 12:18:23 CET 2012

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+> At some stage we also need to look at providing vulnerability data in a
+> suitable format that supports automated validation (e.g. OVAL?), and a
+> site
+> able to browse advisories.
+
+If this means less work, and is relatively easy to do by package
+maintainers, then, this looks like quite a good idea.
+
+>> Just some random crazy idea ...
+>>
+>> IMHO we should focus on security and bugfixes for the stable release,
+>> and there are currently too many security bugs open, some for a
+>> really long time, where nothing is happening for months, yet we still
+>> talk and concern about opening backports.
+>
+> FYI: the reason I have been slow on updates for Mageia is that I still
+> have
+> systems running Mandriva, precisely because the bacports situation has not
+> been finalised, and I don't want to submit all missing packages in Mageia
+> 1 to
+> updates. Once backports is open, I can drop some Mandriva packages, and
+> spend
+> more time contributing to Mageia.
+>
+> So, you can't necessarily say that backports steals time from updates ...
+
+interesting point of view...
+